Starfield - Bethesda's new space IP: will probably be full of fun and easily trackable bugs

How do you think Starfield will turn out?

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Now that it's been said by Pete Hines has stated that Starfield will have NG+ and having it integrated into the main game in some way, I'm reminded of something brought up a few months ago from a 4chan leak.

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The precursor aliens are revealed to actually not be aliens at all,but ancient humans that had a galaxy spanning empire in the distant past. They destroyed themselves in a civil war that is thematically meant to reflect the conflict between the UC and the Freestars. The last remnants of them split into a faction that stayed behind on a ring world and another faction that took a colony ship to a distant planet (Earth) where they reverted back into primitive tribals; Meant to mirror the history of the UC.
The artifacts the player collects during the game use engrams (genetic memory) to reveal things about the precursors and allows you to tap into some of the psionic powers they had. The first (minor) type of artifact is basically like word walls from Skyrim and are meant to encourage and reward exploration. The second type of artifact (major) are tied to the story and their engrams contain parts of a star map. The end game is you putting together this star map with the aid of Constellation, leading to the ring world and the remains of the precursors. Exploring the ring world is the end game.
The entire theme of the game is the Ouroboros. This can be seen in everything from historic mirroring, to the engram system and even in the ring architecture of the precursors.
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I'm anticipating a worse-written story than even Fallout 3's.
 
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Super Hans v2 said:
Now that it's been said by Pete Hines has stated that Starfield will have NG+ and having it integrated into the main game in some way, I'm reminded of something brought up a few months ago from a 4chan leak.



I'm anticipating a worse-written story than even Fallout 3's.
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And here i was wondering if Emil Pagliarulo will be the lead writter/narrative director - guess i have my answer.

Seriously, can't they have someone to tard-wrangle him, like they did during Skyrim's development? Skyrim's plot and narrative wasn't as bad as Fallout 5 or 3.

As for the spoiler itself....if this really is true, that's like a direct rip-off of Halo major plot reveal, just without the Flood killing off everyone in the known universe.

If this will indeed become reality, i hope everyone will call Emil a fucking hack and whoever has the rights to Halo story, as part of the IP rights, at Microsoft/Bungie,

will sue him for plagiarism.
 
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xXx: State of the Union said:
Did Todd/Bethesda ever say there wouldn't be barriers?
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Don't think he did I can't find any evidence of them saying it would be zoned. People were theorizing couple months ago that it would be zoned due to the fact you can't fly in atmosphere and have to walk everywhere. So unless Todd said something very recently I think they kept it vague too keep the hype.
 
It's not even Halo, that story covers like 10% of sci-fi plots out there, it's absurdly common. It can be done well, I've read stories with that basic premise that were pretty good, but it is ominous that they've gone for such a well-worn cliche if that person's post is accurate.
 
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Dead Space's Alien Franchise The Expanse's overall plot is similar to Halo if you think about it: Ancient Alien Technology of a civilization long forgotten harbors a dark secret that threatens the current state of the universe and it's up to a lone hero (or a group) to stop it. It's a cliché at this point and you can find it in just about every genre you can think of
 
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People keep saying this, but Halo isn't the first sci-fi IP to do the precursor race idea and not the first to have the idea that the precursors are human or human adjacent
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Halo was just the introduction to a lot of sci-fi concepts for many people. I wouldn't be surprised if they saw Larry Niven's ringworld and thought it copied Halo. It's very similar to how 40k fans see a sci-fi concept in another series and assume it's copying 40k.
 
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CreamyHerman’s said:
Dead Space's Alien Franchise The Expanse's overall plot is similar to Halo if you think about it: Ancient Alien Technology of a civilization long forgotten harbors a dark secret that threatens the current state of the universe and it's up to a lone hero (or a group) to stop it. It's a cliché at this point and you can find it in just about every genre you can think of
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Holy shit Expanse even uses the same Ring type technology that's in Halo. While the two ring devices function differently in the respective series, they both serve as the device to introduce the ancient alien species. Stargate does the same thing too and that's even older.
 
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DOUBLE_WHEEL said:
People keep saying this, but Halo isn't the first sci-fi IP to do the precursor race idea and not the first to have the idea that the precursors are human or human adjacent

Halo was just the introduction to a lot of sci-fi concepts for many people. I wouldn't be surprised if they saw Larry Niven's ringworld and thought it copied Halo. It's very similar to how 40 fans see a sci-fi concept in another series and assume it's copying 40k.
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True, from all the Sci-fi media i have consumed in the last 30 years, i have first encountered the Precursor theory in Halo franchise, i think it was around Halo 2 or 3, so nearly 15 years ago. My point was mainly about the specifics of the "supposed" Starfield plot reveal, and how it bears strong resemblance to Halo, with us finding "alien" ruins and artefacts, only to learn that they are actually human, from an ancient, highly advanced human civilisation, which collapsed during a great conflict and regressed to a primal status on Earth.

Now that i think about it, rehashing an old plot-point, that was already popularised by another franchise, is more of Pagliarulo's alleyway, then creating a brand, new, inventive and interesting story. That would require talent, which this faggot clearly lacks.
 
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DOUBLE_WHEEL said:
People keep saying this, but Halo isn't the first sci-fi IP to do the precursor race idea and not the first to have the idea that the precursors are human or human adjacent

Halo was just the introduction to a lot of sci-fi concepts for many people. I wouldn't be surprised if they saw Larry Niven's ringworld and thought it copied Halo. It's very similar to how 40k fans see a sci-fi concept in another series and assume it's copying 40k.
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I fairness to Halo I think Bungie had a really good take on the trope. Just enough info dripped through to be interesting but not too much as to pull back the veil to reveal too much. I refuse to accept anything beyond the final cutscene of Halo 3 as canon.
 
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On the topic of tropes, I don't really care when they're used in a story as I think execution matters more than just the general plot points. That said Bethesda rarely sticks the landing on their execution in story.
Your Spiritual Liege said:
then creating a brand, new, inventive and interesting story.
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You're expecting way too much from Bethesda and modern AAA games in general.
 
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Your Spiritual Liege said:
True, from all the Sci-fi media i have consumed in the last 30 years, i have first encountered the Precursor theory in Halo franchise, i think it was around Halo 2 or 3, so nearly 15 years ago. My point was mainly about the specifics of the "supposed" Starfield plot reveal, and how it bears strong resemblance to Halo, with us finding "alien" ruins and artefacts, only to learn that they are actually human, from an ancient, highly advanced human civilisation, which collapsed during a great conflict and regressed to a primal status on Earth.

Now that i think about it, rehashing an old plot-point, that was already popularised by another franchise, is more of Pagliarulo's alleyway, then creating a brand, new, inventive and interesting story. That would require talent, which this faggot clearly lacks.
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Pyramid flagship We Wuz of Admiral Yakub, crashed onto the planet Dindu in the younger dryas.
 
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(Edit: was a tard and saw the link was posted before, but I have a local backup copy of it here)

It appears to load in tiles/chunks even in larger areas...
This might be an issue even for normies in a large city area.
The below clip is taken from New Alantis - seems to be one of the major areas in the game.


Also have a "melee attack"
 

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Soooo slight blurb here;

Every time I hit a mental block in my media free time I always return to two things: harvest moon or skyrim.
This summer has been a total drought- I can't bother picking up any new games and just never go through with it when I think to.
And instead of modding and goofing around in skyrim for the 15th time... Maybe I'll give this a go... Even if it means I'm going against my 'no preorder' policy. :')
 
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